You are part of an elite team which is ready to speed to these endangered space stations. Your mission is clear: destroy the aliens regain control of the space stations, and pick up any valuable hardware you might discover as you sweep the stations for aliens.

The aliens are a swarming band of uglies straight out of your worst nightmare. You'll need to use your talent just to stay alive as you rid each space station of these pests. You don't want to let them catch you. It's them or you.

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As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have the manual, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Here are the hints it provides:

Your primary mission is to locate and eliminate the aliens as quickly as possible. Don't spend too much time searching for valuable objects.

The aliens are clumsier and easier to kill at the lower levels of a space station. Save your best firepower for the scariest aliens, and remember that your biggest challenges await at the higher levels.

Be ever alert for the aliens' varied means of attack.

Shoot tentacles by jumping and quickly firing.

Use grenades to destroy aliens rolled into balls.

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Draw a map of each level. This game has 8 levels; if you complete the 8th stage, you will return to Stage 1. It's a good opportunity to memorize the platforms / screens for each stage, and plan your defense and attack.

Avoid touching the aliens, specially Snotterpillar (the MOST DANGEROUS AND THE BIGGEST MONSTER). This hint will help to save your health, and your weapons in use.

Count how many aliens you have killed on the current stage. Here are the numbers of aliens which you must to kill to complete the level:

STAGE 01 - 12

STAGE 02 - 24

STAGE 03 - 36

STAGE 04 - 60

STAGE 05 - 46

STAGE 06 - 31

STAGE 07 - 45

STAGE 08 - 54

You will earn 300 bonus points per alien killed at the end of current stage.

On Stages 01, 02, 03, 05, 06, and 07, collect the valuable hardware as many as possible, because you will get 1000 bonus points per item picked up at the end of current level. AVOID collecting a lot of valuable hardware on Stages 04 and 08.

If you have at least 1 Grenade, use it to kill the aliens rolled into balls.

Poofer Gun and Lightning Rifle are the best weapons on this game. If you find these weapons, GET THEM!

If you find the Phaser (the less powerful weapon), AVOID IT!

Try to destroy the aliens as fast as possible, specially on Stages 04, 05, 07, and 08. This action will decrease the risk of finding the MOST DANGEROUS MONSTER - SNOTTERPILLAR.

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1. Draw a map of each level. This game has 8 levels; if you complete the 8th stage, you will return to Stage 1. It's a good opportunity to memorize the platforms / screens for each stage, and plan your defense and attack.

2. Avoid touching the aliens, specially Snotterpillar (the MOST DANGEROUS AND THE BIGGEST MONSTER). This hint will help to save your health, and your weapons in use.

3. Count how many aliens you have killed on the current stage. Here are the numbers of aliens which you must to kill to complete the level:STAGE 01 - 12STAGE 02 - 24STAGE 03 - 36STAGE 04 - 60STAGE 05 - 46STAGE 06 - 31STAGE 07 - 45STAGE 08 - 54You will earn 300 bonus points per alien killed at the end of current stage.

4. On Stages 01, 02, 03, 05, 06, and 07, collect the valuable hardware as many as possible, because you will get 1000 bonus points per item picked up at the end of current level. AVOID collecting a lot of valuable hardware on Stages 04 and 08.

5. If you have at least 1 Grenade, use it to kill the aliens rolled into balls.

6. Poofer Gun and Lightning Rifle are the best weapons on this game. If you find these weapons, GET THEM!

7. If you find the Phaser (the less powerful weapon), AVOID IT!

8. Try to destroy the aliens as fast as possible, specially on Stages 04, 05, 07, and 08. This action will decrease the risk of finding the MOST DANGEROUS MONSTER - SNOTTERPILLAR.

I've played the arcade version and checked out the 2600 version before, so I'm no stranger to this game. I never did play the 2600 one much though.

My first two attempts didn't even break 50k. Man this game was a bit more brutal than I remembered.

My third attempt, however...rolled like one of those annoying guys that like to get bombed.

This game is just too merciful. My strategy was simply "Go right and blast stuff, skip the rolly things if they're rolled up, conserve grenades". And it didn't fail me much. Unlike the arcade version, I didn't have a spaceship explode on me once, and my health was almost always around full; whenever my health was nearly depleted I would recover it with those abundant health bonuses. I eventually had enough grenades that I could just bomb whatever I felt like, but even on the snotterpillars I'd just shoot them. Sometimes they'd get a good hit though (or I do something stupid like jump into a tentacle) and break my gun. Then it's on! Grenades! Boom! DIE YEAH! Aw crap I forgot where to find spare guns. To hell with it, just bomb my way out! And then I'm on the new ship, punching the critters and finding a new gun, then back to slumbertown I go until I go do something really stupid and get nearly killed.

By the way, best moment I had in the game was when I jumped right into a leaping snotterpillar. I aint afraid to joust with you!

Hint for Xenophobe players: If you want to take a rest (go to the bathroom, drink the fruit juice or eat the sandwich), simply pause the gameplay setting the TV TYPE switch to B&W mode. To resume, set TV TYPE to Color Mode, and then to B&W.

I have played Xenophobe to learn how to play it. Iíve ever rolled the score when I was knowing this game, and training (without reading Xenophobe manual or drawing the map).

COMMENTS: This game is EASY, and SLOW for more EXPERT players. Iím an EXPERT player as JIFREMOK, the first person who rolled the score on this 2600 HSC Contest. Also, this game on 2600 version is EASIER than the Arcade version (in my opinion).

Things got pretty dramatic, at 960,000ks... a snottopillar came around, tons of them, I broke two guns... looked around all floor 1 dodging snotty's no gun to be found... then I went to floor two of level 8. Found a weapon! The rest is history.

Hey new guy. Good 1st score. I think you'll get better... the key is to find the Poofer Gun on level 3. FLOOR 1 (to the right). Don't run into aliens if you can help it, they can, sometimes "BREAK" your gun!